99 sheep woke up/came in from the toxic fields/in search of a song/full of tic bites/wolves
against no walls/on a come up/calling bluffs/tea parties full of donkeys&elephants
99 sheep/infiltrated/media affiliated/99 sheep
awake/from a long slow dance/a tango w/existence
insistent on voicing the relevant/trying to remember the song
/seeking the face of god
/in small foot prints/& elevated empathy
/99 sheep sitting by the last tree/
near a polluted sea/
under a dirt colored sky/listening
for the dust/wanting to know what it know/trying to remember the song/
undoing/unlearning/unwilling to continue under standing/
over standing.imminent/not willing to stand under falling skies/
while a woman in white cried/a poet hypothesized/& the band dont miss a beat
ya know this a dime/see it swang/see it swang
anybody seen my song/?/
/maybe too late/did we stay too long
swang pendulum/did we stay too long/suns set/
aquarius on the dawn/so long in coming/spring forward for me/spring
unseal fates
the poor are getting poorer/greedy getting greater/
the poor stand in line after line/opening up store doors/
never getting enough/99 sheep want more/see them stomping on
what held them up before/but still cant get enough/
camping on wall street/city plazas and outside retail stores
open open we want more
/shiny bull shit/more lies/more open eyes/more of the sheep to realize
/in real life/the winners live and the losers die/no one testifies/
watch it swang/watch it swang/does the movement mean anything
/or is it just the latest dance/as the sun sets in babylon/
somebody wake nero/tell him its time to go/
are they selling humanity in the store/? can we find it by the fire
as the sun sets/will the truth finally feel safe in the open/or remain hidden
behind/the lies?/is there a final truth
/big enough to sing us human/ so far from
the garden/driven by the wheel/ whose driving the wheel/who stole my song/
i know i should be singing/wake me up
99 sheep/? still trusting polytricksters/take their ritalin
& march/ hoping for brighter tomorrows/should have remembered from the
start/we the people/we invented the wheel/we let them drive it/wolves at our table
driving the wheel/99 marching sheep/say they long to be free/
sorrowland rebellion/
who own this army/who own this revolt/who are these sheep
pharoahs army watches/barely distracted
from setting fires/ burning forest/designer drug and king making/god build us a better reality/show they just faking/war waging/culture caging/world carnage/ for cash consumption/dollars over you management of everything/no social medicine/
let em die
/less of them to kill/lock up/case manage
disconnect/foreclose/evict/leave them without a song/
waiting to go/
/raid/disperse/reassemble/sheep movement/
one planet
/occupado/in search of a song
a place for everything/how things get so out of place/
wolf movement/
/disrupt tyranny/cry the sheep/
stay in ya lane reply the tyrants/
?s at the end of a paradigm/sheep remembering the wheel
sheep want the wolves out of the circle/wanna slow down the wheel/
want to remember/beginning to want to understand/what they ought to know/should never have forgot/dirt and dust lessons/leaping backwards/with authority/never should have forgot/remembering the days before the wheel/and the day we let a wolf come to dinner/woke up sheared/fleeced/out to sea/wrapped in red velvet/surfing the internet/looking for the wave of tomorrow/they fenced the wild west/young men get on a ship/the new frontier is the front line/middle east/africa/make us a market/we got shiny shit for sale/made in indonesia/99 sheep woke up/ & marched/like shearlings/worried about tomorrow/confused about yesterday/lookin for the wheel/
got to take it back/
99 sheep finally see/maybe eligible for freedom/singing
want a dialog/turned off the tv/repurposed twitter/
signed out of facebook/went into deep sleeper status/went underground/came out the closet/
became diverse/longed for polarity
leaderless/leaderfull
messy/like democracy/confused like a slaughter yard
sheep/wont drink the water
turned off the news and became the lead story
/revolution televised/from cairo to oakland/
from the foothills and in the flatlands/fall fell on sheep
springing forward/spring around the world/the day of the lamb/song heard round the world
lamb rising/sorrowlands rebelling/arrested/encamped/blind folds off/still marching blind/in need of an end game/funky/dog shit/hay and tents/wall street/ogawa plaza/san jose/ berkeley/ sebastopol /boston/denver/ campuses /washington /the state of the states restated/by sheep on a wolf hunt/no time for a blue blooded tea party/invitation to rebellion/sorrowland rebellion/sorrowland spring/day of the sheep/ sheep take the street/but/can they take the day
/?/
dignity aint free/anarchist/scientologist/bar keepers/ barbers/free range/candle making bakers/itt techs/ bee keepers/buddhist& baptist/organic/green/unemployed/underrepresented/unarticulated.disenfranchised/
othered/unimpressed north mericans/one paycheck away from it all falling down/or living in the shadow of their lives //
after it fell down/broke on the hill and crashed into the abandoned merican dream//
wolfs offer permits
?how civil can civil unrest be?
/tired being run over by the wheel/
would buy american/aint got no money/
aint got no job
aint got no house
aint nuthin made in merica any more no way
/we export broken dreams
/99 per cent got
broken lives/out of warranty/sold with a balloon payment
/& its pass due/
aint got enough faith to keep dancing\99 sheep
&/ the band dont miss a beat/
chronic homeless as a frontline/absurd in america/the displaced embraced
?/too poor for the 99/wait one more payday/living a foreclosure away/?are they crazy before they lose their houses/invisible now/99 look at ya real face/
sheep is sheep
or would you rather be a wolf/tics/against no walls/ask a veteran how it plays
on a slow day/after your killings done/ya just another one of the 99/
they told us
jesus was with them/in search of the one/but i remember the camels eye
/& wolves lie/
divine dope/
duplicity/
& sheep/
miles to go/
awake now/dont sleep
dawn might come/breaking paradigms
like running yolks/thrown off/by sheep standing
/we are the people/hear us singing/we are the people/
Vivid and lucid as usual.
Powerful and yes as Zahieb says “lucid”. Continue on sis, with your amazing song.
You are so amazing!
I love this piece.
Naru